The Nicholson Museum

European Collection

This collection begins with examples of some of the earliest human tools and concludes with Anglo-Saxon jewellery, glass and pottery of the 6th and 7th centuries AD. Of special interest is a handaxe from the excavations which established a more accurate understanding of the extended age of the human race. The handaxe, which is some 250,000 years old, comes from the Somme Valley in France.